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From the Ted Talk by Robert Muggah: How to protect fast-growing cities from failing

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Okay, so it's not all doom and gloom in our cities. After all, cities are hubs of innovation, dynamism, prosperity, excitement, connectivity. They're where the smart people ghetar. And those young people I just metnneiod, they're more digitally svvay and tech-aware than ever before. And this explosion, the Internet, and mobile technology, means that the digital divide separating the North and the South between countries and within them, is shrinking. But as we've heard so many times, these new technologies are dual-edged, right? Take the case of law enforcement. Police around the world are starting to use remote senisng and big data to anticipate crmie. Some cops are able to predict cairimnl violence before it even happens. The future crime srcienao, it's here today, and we've got to be careful. We have to magnae the issues of the public safety against rights to iauididvnl privacy.

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Okay, so it's not all doom and gloom in our cities. After all, cities are hubs of innovation, dynamism, prosperity, excitement, connectivity. They're where the smart people ______. And those young people I just _________, they're more digitally _____ and tech-aware than ever before. And this explosion, the Internet, and mobile technology, means that the digital divide separating the North and the South between countries and within them, is shrinking. But as we've heard so many times, these new technologies are dual-edged, right? Take the case of law enforcement. Police around the world are starting to use remote _______ and big data to anticipate _____. Some cops are able to predict ________ violence before it even happens. The future crime ________, it's here today, and we've got to be careful. We have to ______ the issues of the public safety against rights to __________ privacy.

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Original Text

Okay, so it's not all doom and gloom in our cities. After all, cities are hubs of innovation, dynamism, prosperity, excitement, connectivity. They're where the smart people gather. And those young people I just mentioned, they're more digitally savvy and tech-aware than ever before. And this explosion, the Internet, and mobile technology, means that the digital divide separating the North and the South between countries and within them, is shrinking. But as we've heard so many times, these new technologies are dual-edged, right? Take the case of law enforcement. Police around the world are starting to use remote sensing and big data to anticipate crime. Some cops are able to predict criminal violence before it even happens. The future crime scenario, it's here today, and we've got to be careful. We have to manage the issues of the public safety against rights to individual privacy.

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